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Arthur Owens Cooke
A Story of Adventure in Modern Mexico
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“The ‘cutting down expenses’ on a scale that would allow us to remain at Meadowgrange would be a business, Coll; but I have made a start, as you may perhaps have seen. Cupid has gone, and I’m afraid the hunter I half-hinted at for you is ‘off’. I’m trying to sell the car too; it’s in first-rate order and should fetch a decent price. I’m taking care of it meanwhile; that’s why I didn’t bring it in for you last night. If I can sell it and get hold of a cheap runabout, then Psyche will be sold. Enid will not go back to Paris for another year, as we had planned. We have dismissed a groom and a maid. But all this will not balance the deficit which we have to meet. Gerald naturally costs me a good deal; diplomacy is not a very paying profession, and there is a certain amount of style to be kept up.
“No, Coll, I don’t see how we can keep on at Meadowgrange. Gerald, of course, will have the place when I am gone. Roger and you are younger sons, and English social custom takes but small account of them. For years we have been trying to lay by something for both Roger and yourself, but it does not amount to very much as yet; I am afraid that I have been to blame.”
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